She was clever at her job.
She was clever at her job.
He never gets rattled.
The earth below us, ripe and fresh with blood
Credo in Unam, The complete works of Arthur Rimbaud
Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing but what he did being childish?
The winter's tale, Shakespeare. Act IV, scene III, Polixenes, king of Bohemia.
"It's not his real name" she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. Its one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants. Like Prospero is for you"
The night circus by Eric Morgrnstern
He'd gone straight out and killed it, or so he thought, intending to dissect it at Bart's.
<I'll have been paid. You watch.>
_Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. Published Arrow Books 1997
Wow, it's portentous, or just meaningless?
So she had five minutes of a kind of wild, open freedom during which anything might happen.
His name had been talked about, his practice had increased; and moreover he could go to Les Bertaux just as he liked.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
"Ashley noticed that the bottle was half empty, while Cade already appeared to be more than half full." From Revenge (aka The Stars' Tennis Balls) by Stephen Fry.
When I stood close to the canvas, I noticed that parts of her body were covered with a fine hair.
"Is there somewhere we can go to use the restroom?"
The little mermaid stood still for a minute looking at this horrible wood ; her heart beat with fear, and she would certainly have returned without attaining her object, had she not remembered the prince--and immortality.
-Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales-
"Our mission was strictly conventional, opium and hash, the primary export crop of terrorists around the world."
World War Z by Max Brooks.
"It is not out of the quesiton; you have been absent-[minded lately].
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being